*Semantics; *Turkish; Uncommonly Taught Languages IDENTIFIERS *Cyprus; Synonyms

This paper examines the Turkish origins of a number of Cypriot-Greek words, explaining how some of these words have undergone a semantic shift. Words of Turkish origin can be divided into three classes: (1) culturally borrowed, those words that introduced a new concept into Cypriot-Greek and have no purely Greek equivalent; (2) doubJets, those words that are used in Cypriot-Greek as synonyms for Greek words; and (3) those words that have undergone a change in definition, usually narrowing the meaning of the original Turkish word or changing it altogether. The origin of the semantic shift of a number of words are explored. (MDM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document